Gavin McGough
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Iowa Public Radio
Blue-spotted salamanders are common in many parts of the U.S. and Canada. But in Iowa, the species is endangered. A nature center in Cedar Falls is working to conserve and restore them along the Cedar River.
Ann Hammond
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Courtesy of Monarch Research
Nicole Baxter
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Iowa Public Radio
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Prairie experts Jim Pease and Mark Muller talk about what we can learn from the prairie and the wildlife that live in it. -
We tour the Corriell Nature Preserve with Robin Wall Kimmerer and talk about the tools of land preservation.
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Canada geese, white-tailed deer, wild turkey - these are all species that were once rare in Iowa, but now are seemingly everywhere.
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Justin Roberts didn't set out to be a children's musician, but his tunes and inventive lyrics brought him success and national attention.
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Canada geese, white-tailed deer, wild turkey - these are all species that were once rare in Iowa, but now are seemingly everywhere.
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Carol Roh Spaulding discusses her award-winning short story collection, plus a look at Iowa's annual prairie chicken festival
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Host Charity Nebbe and wildlife biologist Jim Pease observe the prairie chicken mating dance and discuss the species' precarious situation in Iowa on this encore episode.
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Tall grass prairie once covered about 85% of the land we now know as Iowa. It now makes up less than one-tenth of a percent.
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Land that was once purchased for a nuclear power plant is now 6,000 acres of restored prairie at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper County. One day, it hopes to reach 8,650 acres.
